.NET Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Microsoft .NET (dotNet)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring .NET skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 49 39
Rank change year-on-year +18 -10 +19
Contract jobs citing .NET 19 5 19
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 4.28% 1.40% 3.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 34.55% 11.90% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 14
10th Percentile £363 £442 £326
25th Percentile £388 £467 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £494 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +16.18% -19.05%
75th Percentile £556 £519 £484
90th Percentile £640 £553 £521
South East median daily rate £456 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -13.14% - -4.55%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Buckinghamshire

.NET falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 55 42 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 12.39% 11.76% 17.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 32 66
10th Percentile £360 £407 £375
25th Percentile £413 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £548 £524
Median % change year-on-year -15.62% +4.53% -0.24%
75th Percentile £565 £623 £643
90th Percentile £583 £675 £733
South East median daily rate £480 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -8.57% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year -24.00% -7.41% +3.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing .NET relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

.NET job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing .NET.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing .NET

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Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing .NET in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for .NET in Buckinghamshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing .NET.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing .NET

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Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing .NET within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +17 17 £488 -1.27% 22
.NET
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) CMS
1 1 (5.26%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.26%) Kontent
2 1 (5.26%) prismic.io
2 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) SQL Server
2 4 (21.05%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Developer
2 5 (26.32%) Architect
3 4 (21.05%) Senior
3 4 (21.05%) Technical Architect
4 3 (15.79%) .NET Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Python Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Technical Architect
6 1 (5.26%) Applications Developer
6 1 (5.26%) C# Application Developer
6 1 (5.26%) C# Web Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior .NET Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Applications Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Web Applications Developer
6 1 (5.26%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) Blazor
1 3 (15.79%) CSS
1 3 (15.79%) HTML
1 3 (15.79%) RESTful
2 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.26%) .NET Core
3 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (5.26%) CSS3
3 1 (5.26%) Entity Framework
3 1 (5.26%) HTML5
3 1 (5.26%) JSON
3 1 (5.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (21.05%) ITIL
3 3 (15.79%) Agile
3 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) Asynchronous Programming
4 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
4 2 (10.53%) Code Quality
4 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.53%) Project Management
4 2 (10.53%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (10.53%) TDD
4 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
4 2 (10.53%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (5.26%) Content Analysis
5 1 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Line Management
5 1 (5.26%) Microservices
5 1 (5.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (5.26%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) C#
2 5 (26.32%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
1 4 (21.05%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle